US Patent Issued to Canon on April 29 for "Power receiving apparatus, power transmitting apparatus, control methods thereof, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,998, issued on April 29, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Power receiving apparatus, power transmitting apparatus, control methods thereof, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium" was invented by Hajime Shimura (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power receiving apparatus capable of receiving power transmitted from a power transmitting apparatus capable of executing first foreign object detection and second foreign object detection, transmits, to the power transmitting apparatus, data to be used by the power transmitting apparatus to execute the first foreign object detection; before transmitting the d...